Coniraya

Coniraya is the God of trickery and fertility. Plants grow, flowers bloom, animals multiply, and humans conceive wherever he fixes his ever-wandering gaze. For all the benefits he provides Tawantinsuyu, his mischievous nature earns Coniraya notoriety and praise in equal measure.

Cavillace was a virgin Goddess of astonishing beauty desired by most of the Apu, yet she scorned their affections. Coniraya coveted her and hatched a plan to earn her favor. He noticed Cavillace reclining under a lucuma tree and transformed his semen into a lucuma fruit, dropping it at her feet. Coniraya ate the fruit and became pregnant, giving birth to a child nine months later. She summoned the Apu to determine which one impregnated her, and they assembled in all their divine finery, except Coniraya who arrived in peasant’s rags. When no God stepped forward to take responsibility, Cavillace set her baby down and it crawled straight to its father, Coniraya. Horrified at Coniraya’s disheveled state, Cavillace walked into the sea and transformed herself and her child into stone in disgust.

Coniraya is a bedraggled man dressed in rags but affects divine finery when it suits him. He is far too mercurial to adopt a regular position in the World, choosing instead to wander from place-to-place as it pleases him, spreading life wherever (and with whomever) he wishes.

Scions of Coniraya are an admixture of trickery, honeyed words, and oblique action. They revel in travel and new experiences, eschewing the ordered dictates of Inti and his fellow Apu. They are masters of seduction, but horrible at romance, shunning responsibility in all forms, seldom choosing fight over flight. They are receptive to the prayers of others requiring their fertility-enhancing talents, and can be cajoled into helping fellow Scions, but are quick to move on when the task is complete. Coniraya’s Scions are often doctors at fertility clinics, botanists, farmers, animal husbandry specialists, prostitutes, lotharios, and tricksters of all stripes.